Philippines gets more than 200,000 new Pfizer doses

Workers unload from the plane the crates containing the Philippines' new doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine which arrived on October 16, 2021

Release / National Task Force COVID-19

MANILA, Philippines — Some 207,090 more procured doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the Philippines over the weekend with inoculation efforts for minors underway. 

An Air Hong Kong plane carrying the additional jabs landed at the NAIA Terminal 3 in Pasay on the evening of October 16. 

The shipment brought the number of doses the country got in total last week to 2.29 million, according to the National Task Force against COVID-19. 

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